Word: tranquillity
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...Catholics, but with highest tact declared: "In this solemn moment our thoughts run also to all those who are outside the Church, to those who will be pleased to know that the Pope raises for them . . . prayers and wishes for every good. . . . We invite everybody to peace of conscience, tranquil in the friendship of God, to peace of families . . . to peace among nations through mutual, brotherly assistance, friendly collaboration and cordial understandings for the superior interests of the great human family...
...friend and professional colleague of Benito Mussolini, now in disgrace in Italy because her family, although old honored and Venetian, is also Jewish. Margherita and Benito met when she was art critic and he editor of the Socialist Avanti in Milan, long before he became famous. Through the comparatively tranquil late '20s and up until 1935, when the Duce made most of his private income by writing for the Hearst newspapers, Madame Sarfatti was his "ghost" and manager. When the Dictator wanted a raise from Hearst, she helped to negotiate it, sometimes by arranging improved treatment for Hearstmen...
Charting & Checking. The station at Cold Spring Harbor is a cluster of buildings beside a tranquil bay off Long Island Sound. There Dr. Riddle and his co-workers have painstakingly tested prolactin and other front-lobe hormones on normal animals, fasting animals, animals without pituitaries, without thyroids, without adrenals...
...connections of Thomas Russell, the overseer of Shakespeare's will, identifies the bard tenuously with groups of Catholic conspirators, but fails to catch him in any political activity. Result: a series of good thumbnail biographies of forgotten Elizabethans, throwing more light upon the turbulent times than on the tranquil poet...
...Eternal City is not a large canvas (45½ in. by 59½ in.), but it took the artist two years to conceive, three years to paint. Stalwart, tranquil Peter Blume was 26 when he got a Guggenheim fellowship, took his young wife Ebie to Italy in 1932. They stayed eight months, lived in Florence for a while and then in Rome. Like other travelers in Italy that year they ran into a great deal of marching in celebration of the loth Anniversary of Mussolini's March on Rome. They met smart Italian officers in powder-blue caps...